Challenge 1: All about you

Welcome to the seventh student blogging challenge.

Looking through the list of participants, we have very few students who have taken part in a challenge before so the activities will be new to you all. A reminder that some activities will be about setting up your blog while other activities will be writing posts or improving your commenting skills. Each week you can choose to do as many of the activities as you like or your teacher might choose the one they want for that week.

Whatever happens – Enjoy your blogging!

When you meet someone for the first time or join a new class, you usually have to introduce yourself. Most blogs have a page called ‘About’ or ‘Sample Page’ or ‘Profile’.

Activity 1. Write or update your ‘About’ page. Tell your readers your first name only, a bit about your interests but remember to be internet savvy and not give out any personal details. Check out these students – Emma , Daniel , Chloe , Simon , Ben and Molly. If you wrote your ‘About’ page last year, things will have changed – so update the information or improve the layout of what you have written to make it easier for your readers to understand.

In Edublogs, log in to your dashboard. On left go to all pages, hover under sample page and click edit. Make sure you change the title and delete what is already written there. Once you have finished, hit the update button. Now remember to go to appearance> widgets and drag your ‘Pages’ widget to your sidebar.

Because Sue Waters (from The Edublogger) and I want to know about student commenting skills, we would like everyone to do the next activity.

Activity 2. Leave a comment on this post to answer the following questions.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
What do you hope some of the activities include?
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?

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Because we can’t all meet face to face (f2f), we have to have an online identity to represent us. Whenever I leave a comment on your blog, you will see a grey haired lady. I love wearing thongs on my feet and drinking iced tea. So that is a picture representing me – these pictures are avatars.

Activity 3 – make an avatar

Step 1. Create an avatar for your blog and for you to use when leaving comments.

Avatars are a representation of yourself. Check out this post about avatars. Create your avatar using one of the websites below.

Step 2. Using printscreen to save your avatar or use the snipping tool

So you decided to create an avatar like “Hero Factory” or “Build your wildself” or “Mini Mizer” where you can’t save it easily. You need to take a picture of the screen first. Most computers have a printscreen button on the keyboard or if using Windows 7 you have an icon called “snipping tool”. Not sure what Mac users have but I am sure there is a similar button on your computers.

When you press printscreen or use the snipping tool an image of your screen or part of it is now copied to your clipboard. You will still need to crop and resize to get an avatar that fits well on your blog.

Open MS Paint and click control V to paste your image from the clipboard. To save, you need to go to File>Save As> change the name of the file to yourname with ava eg sueava then underneath change the file type to JPEG. Make sure you save your avatar to your drive.

Go to your drive, right click on the icon for your avatar image and choose “Open with” choose MS Picture Manager. This might be in Microsoft office tools.

In the icons at the top, go to View> task pane. On the right go to edit pictures > crop. Now move the black bars on the side of your image in, to crop your picture to what you want in your avatar.

Click OK, then back to edit pictures. Now click on resize. In the box “custom width and height” put 97 in both boxes. These numbers might be slightly different but one has to be 97 and the other smaller than 97. Click OK.

Back up to file>save as> call it sueava2 or similar> make sure it is still JPEG. Make sure you have saved it to your drive again.

If it now looks like a black coloured square then you haven’t cropped the image to the correct size in step 2 using printscreen. Or maybe you didn’t save the image as a JPEG in step 2 using printscreen.

Activity 4 – Write a post describing your avatar.

How much does it look like you? What sort of personality does your avatar have? What makes it typically you? Remember to include your avatar as an image in your post.

Activity 5 – Visit 10 student blogs in the challenge where you have the same interests.

Write a post or leave a comment telling me who you visited and what post you commented on in their blog. Why did you comment on that post?

Activity 6 – Write a tutorial post about creating your avatar

This would be handy for Miss W to have for the next set of challenges. Your post could be used to teach other students or teachers about how to create, resize and upload their avatar especially if using blogspot, kidblog or a Mac computer. Mention in your post what type of computer you were using and the programs used for resizing etc.

Extra activity or as a class – Create different avatars and share them with the world.

Now create an animoto with your images to embed in your blog. Check first if your teacher has a class animoto reference code.

Maybe you know a tool to create a flip book that can show your class avatars with a description similar to activity 4.

If you don’t want to create an animoto, then add the avatars in a gallery to your blog post. Check out how Max created his animoto. Check out the post about his family by Jack.

Remember to leave a link back to this post (see below) if you have written about one of the activities in your blog.

My avatar looks like because we both have glasses and we both wear t shirts and shorts most of the time. The personality of my avatar is that it’s fierce, but it can spread its wings and fly to its dreams. The avatar is typically me because I’m a little sassy, but I still can reach for my dreams and work hard.

I joined the student Blogging Challenge because we joined as a class. I wish that there are more drawing actives to do instead of posting and witting.I hope to get to be an example for the student Blogging Challenge.

i joined the Student Blogging Challenge because we joined as a class. the activities id like for this season is to see what other people have interests in.Out of this session id like to see more things and learn more about technology skils

1. I joined the blogging challenge because I thought it would be interesting to talk to people from other countries.
2.I hope some activities are that we get to interview people from different people of the world or maybe we have a compititon of some sort.
3.I hope we get put of the challenge is that we get to learn more about blogging and maybe start our own blog.

i join blogging because i want to improve my english and my writing skills.
i will like to have more activities that include more interactive ways to communicate with other bloggers
i hope many people visit my blog and enjoy it

1. I chose to join because I do hope this will improve my writing skills and such, and to help me become a better blogger.
2. I hope these activities are just fun to everyone, and I hope I have a good time.
3. I hope to just have a great time competing and blogging! 🙂

blogs.saschina.org/alison01pd2020/ I commented on the hamster post because I could connect with the blogger about dying animals, then getting a new fiesty one. Something very similiar happened in our household.

bbgrace.edublogs.org/ I commented on this blog because I decided to list my visiting blogs like hers. I thought it was a very good idea.

clairebrhes.edublogs.org/ I commented on this blog because it was the latest and it was a great thing to write about. Sounds like a lot of fun.

blogs.saschina.org/joshua02pd2019/ I commented on this blog because I recently made an avatar, so I had something to write about.

blogs.saschina.org/wade01pd2019/ I commented on this blog because he wants more visitors, I want more visitors and he just sounds like an overall nice person.

bbsimone.edublogs.org/ I commented on this blog because it is interesting and we share so many of the same interests.

sophiessuperblog.edublogs.org/ I commented on this blog because I love going on holiday, even though I have never been out of New Zealand.

angie1234.edublogs.org/ I commented on this blog because I love reading and thought it was a great idea to write about.

ashleighblog.edublogs.org/ I commented on this blog because I have gone to many of those web sites and enjoyed them. So I had something to say.

hannah5456.edublogs.org/ I commented on this blog because she asks questions and I wanted to answer them.

Firstly, I’m sooo excited, because I’ve always wanted to have a blog or webpage!
So the answers to your questions are:
1. I joined this competition because we’re making our own blogs at school, and they told us to subscribe.
2. Putting some games for other people to have fun, or really challenging things!
3. I really want to have lots of comments of other people around the world, and lots of visitors. I want to have new friends from other places, obviously, following the internet safety rules.
Also, I want to have really fun and interesting things, so that people really like my blog and visit it more frequently. I hope this is going to be such fun, and secure, because, I’ve always been a little bit scared about internet safety.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity of challenging ourselves in such fun things.

For Activity 2
1.I joined the challenge because I like to have blogging buddies
2.I hope one of the activities is to try to get a blogging buddy
3.I hope to learn more about different people from different states

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I joined the blogging challenge because Mr.P told us to, and because blogging is fun!

What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope that they include visiting other blogs because that is fun to meet new people.

Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I hope that by the end of the blogging challenge, I will have learned more about other people, and to improve my writing skills.

i joined the blogging challenge for school projects. I would like some of our projects to include sports & to do tons of group stuff. i hope can get a lot better at using technology by taking these challenges

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
i joined the blog challenge because i’m in a blogging unit in 6th grade so i have my own blog. But still i need to learn more about it. so using this i can become a better blogger and become my blog each time better and better.

What do you hope some of the activities include? i hope some activities include sports because i’m #1 fan of sports in colombia, also a little bit of geography because i love learning about different countries in the world, exciting things, an interaction activity between the participants of the challenge and to make cool and fun posts in our blogs.

what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks? i wil like to get of result that i become an expert on blogging, have a very good and cool blog with many comments on it, to finish the challenge doing a very good job and to make some friends by blogging around the world. miss w please leave a comment here in my blog :www.6cmariosblog.weebly.com

Miss. W (activity 2)
I join the blogging because I thought it would be a experence and I would be able to blog to new people and start conversation all over the world.
This is my first year being a blogger and also doing the blogging challenge so I really do not know what to expect.
I hope that I would have learned a lot more about being blogger and have been able to talk to heaps of people from all over the world and even the blogging challenge is over still have conversation with a few.
Lily 🙂

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
-I hope to be more succeesful with blogging and to have more fun with blogging.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
-Interesting activities that anybody can blog.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
– I hope to complete my goal of being a succeesful blogger and have had fun blogging.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
-I hope to become a better blogger
What do you hope some of the activities include?
-posting about local things to do, and personal intesrests
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
-I hope to acheive my goal of becomeing a better blogger.

Why did you join the blogging challenge? I joined the Blogging challenge because our teacher Mr.L told us about it and I thought it would be good fun so Mr.L helped me get a blog!
What do you hope some of the activities include? I think it would be good if we had to do an activity when we all had to do a story bird activity! Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of 10 weeks? To have learn’t how to do some other things that I didn’t know how to do before and to meet some new blogging friends! 😀
Maddi! 😀

Why did you join the blogging challenge? Because our teacher inspered me.
What do you hope some of the activities include? Fun and exciting things
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
lots more people comenting on my pots

Hi, here i’m doing the activity 2.
Actually i join to the blog chalenge because it was a project from school but when i got in for first time to this blog i thought, what a cool idea making this chalenge, because we can improve our blogs as we bisit other blogs and have fun!!!

I hope some activitys have something about youtube videos or about putting pictures and things people can see and like them

I hope that then of this 10 weeks i can have a better blog and a lot of comments and visitors and maibe be nominated to win!!!

we joined the student blogging challenge as a class , i would like to interact with other students around the world and learn new things what i intend to learn in the next ten weeks is learn how to blog on my own

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
Because my teacher wanted me too.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
Interacting with other students.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
How to blog!!

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
– Because my teacher told me about it, and said it could be fun,. That nice

What do you hope some of the activities include?
– Some fun challeinge
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
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Meet some new friends, and be a better blogger.

1.Why did you join the blogging challenge?
2.What do you hope some of the activities include?
3.Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks

1.I joined the blogging challenge because we have a lesson in school that is called the globe, were we write to people from other countries, and learn the language, and then we also have to make a blog and join the blogging challenge.
2.I hope that it has something to do with video, and language.
3.I hope that I have learned something new. And about go to see things in other countries, and be more interested in the culture.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I joined the blogging challenge because we have some lessons where we are going to learn about other culture and countries, and then our teacher told us to be in the challenge so we could learn about it.

What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope that some of the activities included something about how to dress in other countries. I will love to see what’s hot.

Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
– I joined the challenge because we have some lessons in the school called The Globe. In the Globe we are learning about other countries and their cultures. That’s why I joined the challenge.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
– I hope that some of the activities include something about food. Because I love to taste food.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
– I hope that I will be more interested in visiting unknown countries.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
Because that we have a supjekt in school where we are gonna do things like this….
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope that some of the activities might be: Photostory or mowie..
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
To meat some other peaple and learn some other countries.

The Blogging Challenges make us get going on doing some different things on our class blog. I know it is important to be learning how to create some of the things we see on other class blogs. These Challenges give me a push to keep moving forward – slowly perhaps but still moving.
We like it when there is a reason to make contact with other classes.
Many thanks for all of it

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
Because my teacher told me about and thoght I should do it, plus I thought it would be fun.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
Stuff that I don’t know. That way I will learn lots.
What do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the 10 weeks?
I will of learnt how to put all sorts of stuff on my blog. And last of all I would of had fun!

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
Our teacher signed us up for the challenge so we could learn how to blog and connect with other classrooms all over the world.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
We aren’t sure since its our first time.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
We hope to learn about classrooms out of Arizona and what they do in their class. We also hope to learn some new web 2.0 tools.

1) I joined the Student Blogging Challenge because I’m hoping to find interesting blogs and challenges.
2) I hope that some of the activities include fun challenges and some to learn from. As well as posting videos, images, ect.
3) I hope to experience new things.

I joined this challenge with my class, I’m really excited. I can’t wait to do these challenges, I think that these challenge are going to really help us with our blog. I think most of these challenges are going to be about writing certain kind of posts, adding links or other widgets, and other things that help our blog. I think that one of our challenges will be to go to a different student’s blog and right a comment. I think that we’ll gain a lot more knowledge for blogs.

I am doing the blogging challenge with my science class in 6th grade. I hope some activities include cool experiments about electricity and human behavior. By the end of the challenge I hope to have learned about the bones in the human body.

Hello, everyone!
I joined the blogging challenge, because it is a very good way to learn a lot about how people live in the world, about their traditions and practice English.
I’m sure, all activities will be interesting.
I hope, I will have fun with my blogging.

HI i am in this competition because this year my grade is learning about bloggin. i hope we can do some activities that are of adding picures to our blog.i will like to improve my writing skills because im bad at spelling also to become a very good blogger :).

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
My teacher asked me to
What do you hope some of the activities include?
chatting with freinds and doing some experiments
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I would like to make some new friends

Hi, Miss W
I am in this competition because we are learning about blogging this year. I personaly think your posts in edublogs and the challenges are wonderfull.I hope you continiue because you make a grat job. also i hope at the end of this 10 weeks I will be a very good blogger. thanks for your posts.

I joined the blogging challenge because my teacher assigned it. I hope some of the activites include writing about interesting topics. By the end of the challenge, I want to be a better writer and blogger.

To be honest, the only reason I am on here is because my English teacher is making me; however, after blog a little I am finding I actually enjoy blogging. By the end of this I hope to be able to blog well.

Q:Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I joined the blogging challenge to help improve my skills.
Q:What do you hope some of the activity’s include?I hope that they will include playing around with different web tools.
Q:what do you hope to achieve by the end of the challenge? to be a lot better at blogs.

Im doing a blogging challenge so I can make my blog better each time. I also liked doing it so i could improve my blogging habilities. Blogging is new for me and I have been liking it because it is a good place for expressing my self. I also liked to take part of the blogging challenge because i would like to share the experience with my family and friends.

I hope that some of the activities of the blogging challenges are fun to do. I would also like to improve my english and it`s a good way if native speakers, in a polite way, correct my mistakes so i can learn from them. As I live in Colombia, I speak in spanish, and if some one else around does a blog in spanish and they are not shure of how to say something or woulg like to learn a different way to say it, i would happily help them!

By the end of ten weeks of following the challenge I would like to have a great blog that lots of people visit, enjoy and have fun with!!!

1. Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I enjoy blogging and our whole class was doing it.
2.What do you hope some of the activities include?
being creative, using logic, and just having fun with technology.
3.Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
Improvement of my blogging skills and making me look at blogging in a different way.

Why did I join the challenge?
Because I want to meet new people and learn new things.
What I hope some of the activities include:
Talking about my family and showing what things I do.
What I hope to get out of the challenge.
New friends and more computer tricks.

1.Why did you join the student blogging challenge?
Because my teacher made me and I thought it would be fun.
2.What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope that they will be really fun and I hope that I can talk to people from around the world.
3.What do you hope to get out of this blogging challenge by the end of 10 weeks?
I hope that by the end of 10 weeks I will have had lots of fun and made lots of friends through the internet and learn about people from aroung the world. I also hope that lots of people will visit my blog.

Why did you join the blogging challenge? Because the rest of my class joined.
What do you hope some of the activities include? Mostly computer activities.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks? some more imformation about different topics.

Why did I join the student bloging challenge?I joined the student bloging challenge because I think it would be fun to talk to somone across the globe and meet new people.
What do you hope some of the activites include? I hope we get to talking to people because it would be nice to talk to somone across the globe Finally, What do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks ten weeks? I hope this site will hep increase my creativity skills!

Hey,
I joined because at my school my teacher told me to. I hope to do things like meeting other people around the world during blog times. Also I hope that I will learn to type faster from typeing so much so that I can blog more.

Why did you join the blogging challenge? My teacher made me.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I don’t know what activities I want it to include. Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?To get people from Portugal to comment on my blog.

Why did I join the Blogging Challenge?
I joined to better understand how technology works and how to use it better.
What do i hope the activites include?
I personally hope they include experiments and fun activities.
What do i hope to accomplish in the next ten weeks?
I hope to better understand technology.

Q: Why did you join the blogging challenge?
A: Manly because My nice teacher, Miss Wilson, do this for a class project.
Q: What do you hope some of the activities include?
A: I hope this activity has a lot of fun computer science.
Q: What do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
A: I hope i had a lot of fun from this activity

1)Why did I join the student blogging challenge?
Everyone in my science class, including myself, made a blog. We decided to do this chalenge so we could keep up with our blog and see what other students around the world are doing.
2)What do you hope some of the activities will include?
I’m not exactly sure, because this is my first blog, but I would probably say that I would like to see some activities where we can use our imagination.
3)Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the next ten weeks?
I hope I will actually understand how to do all of this stuff on my blog, keeping in mind the fact that I’m horrible at working with computers.
From,
Jenna

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I joined because I really wanted to challage myself asw a blogger and see what comes out of it. Because i am always trying to make my blog even bettere everyday for my viewers and the world.

What do you hope some of the activities include?
something about animals because i LOVE animals and hope I can do another post about them.

Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
i hope to have given this challenge my best shot and hope i get a good score.

Hi,
For activity 5, I visited many blogs with there hobbies as gymnastics or dancing. There were many good blogs, but the one I remember is by Laura in the USA. She had a very interesting bucket list that I commented on. She had a list of 10 things, and many of them are on my bucket list like sky diving, going on a really scary rollercoaster, going on a segway and having kids. Many of our hobbies are in commen which made me comment on her post.

Q-why did you join the bloging challenge?
A-because my teacher (ms.w)told us to but, it’s kinda fun.
Q- What do you hope some activities includ?
A- creative and entertaining ideas.
Q- what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeeks
A- I hope to learn more things about different people and be a better writer

I’m doing this for my teacher. I hope that there will be more blogging challenges and class challenges. And I hope that by the end of this i learn more about computers and other people around the world.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
Year 6 signed up for the blog challenge so that we could all (me included) learn how to better use the bogging tool and all of its great features and to connect with other global learners.

What do you hope some of the activities include?
Well, because we are all beginner bloggers, we hope there will be lots of tasks that help us to create and connect with one another.

Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
To connect with other class bloggers from around the world, to become better and more confident in using the technology.

I joined the blogging challenge because It is an assignment for my Applied Technology Class.
I hope to improve on my blogging
I hope by the end of these 10 weeks I will learn to love technology and have better appreciation for it

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
My teacher made me.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
Not a Lot of work because I hate technology
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
A 100 as my grade.

1. I joined because I think blogging is a good way to communicate with people.
2. I hope to have different blogs about different things going on in my life.
3. I hope to be able to blog skillfully and become a better writer.

I joined the student blogging challenge to learn tons, keep up my personal blog and post about different things for people to read.
I hope some of the challenges include things that express ourselves like hobbies and interests. Lastly, I hope to make tons of new blogging “buddies”, blog more and keep it up.
Caz

Hi Mrs W,
I have joined the blogging challenge because I want to become a better blogger and write more interesting posts.
I hope that some of the activities will include interesting posts, commenting on overseas blogs and create new things on our blog.
I hope to become a better blogger and to reach my goal of 1000 visitors by the end of the year.
I also hope to become more experienced in blogging and to attract more visitors.
Keep Blogging,
Sophie 🙂

Hello here are my answers, for activity two on the student blogging challenge.
Why did you join the blogging challenge? My teacher told me about it and how she was a teacher who was involved and from there I thought it was a great idea so I jumped online and registered.
What do you hope some of the activities include? Well I love to write so anything will be fun for me. And I love adding Widgets and pictures and designing slide shows.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks? Probably more visitors, and improve on my posts.

Hello I am called Mika
have entered the student blogging challenge and can’t wait for more tasks.
I entered the student blogging challenge so I could get a better blog. My blog needs a little help since it started this year I do enjoy blogging and love to write stories and let people finish them off. I am from the blog year5rc and lo0ve to look at different peoples blogs. I don’t think anything should change to the student blogging challenge because there is already so much great things about it. however there is always room for improvement. I can improve and so can you. I love the student blogging challenge.
Keep Blogging.
mika

Why did you join the blogging challenge?cause i had to
What do you hope some of the activities include?things to do with codeing
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks? lots of computer noledge

Why did you join the blogging challeng?
My applied technology class and me, we all do it. I am especially doing it to learn about blogging and social networks.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope the activities conclude assignments about art, fashion and music.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I hope I will be a constantly blogger about fashion, music and art. Also I just like how blogging and social networks work.

this is of challenge #2
Why did you join the blogging challenge:
I join the blogging challenge because i wanted to learn new things of other countries and make new friends
What do you hope some of the activities include?
i hope that some activities are interacting with other people
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I hope that more people visit my blog and put many good comments

Hi ms. W I want to talk you about challenge #5 i visit 10 blogs 3 of Australia 5 of USA 2 of Canada and 1 of Colombia but i only live a coment in 2 the 1st one is 2017mmr.edublogs.org and in http://2017bvm.edublogs.org/ i think that where the most interesting

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I joined because my teacher assinged it to the class.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope that some of them will inclued blogging with people from different places around the world.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I hope to have a better and coller blog. I also hope that I will learn alot about blogging.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
It was an asigment
What do you hope some of the activities include?
i hope an activity is to leave a comment on amother person’s blog
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
i hope to learn how to comunicate with other people by blogging

Why did you join the blogging challenge? I was forced to.
What do you hope some of the activities include? Having fun.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks? Learning how to blog better.

Hi Miss. Wyatt, these are the answers to the questions in challenge 1.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?

I think it is a great way to meet new people but it also helpes me with my writing skills because I can express what I am feeling.

What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope some of the activities include going on others blogs and commenting on there posts because then I can read about others interests and that way they can come to my blog to read about my interests.

Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I hope to meet new people and explore different ways to make my blog more intersesting for the people that come and read my blog.

Hey,
Here, I will answer some questions…
WHY DID YOU JOIN THE BLOGGING CHALLENGE?
I joined so that I will become a better blogger and an awesome blogger!
WHAT DO YOU HOPE THE BLOGGING CHALLENGES INCLUDE?
That we have to do 7 random facts again and to make a quiz about a super star that people have to answer.
WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO GET OUT OF THE NEXT 10 WEEKS? I hope that I am mentioned a few times for my posts and pages and that i have people comment on my blog!

I joined the challenge because i want to have fun and i thought this would be fun. I hope some of the activities include best picture post ( when you put up a picyure and write something ). By the end of ten weeks i want to be a pro at blogging.

I joined because my teacher told me too but this does seem kind of cool at the same time. I hope that some of the activities include blogging to other people and lots of just free fire writing where we can take it wherever we want to. Plus all the activites have to be fun other wise all this technology stuff in the class just becomes boring. I he to learn how to blog overall and I hope that everyone can gain tons of informant and become Internet smart.

1. I joined the blogging challenge because my teacher told me to.
2. I hope that the activities in this challenge include learning how to use a blog and posting blogposts
3. I hope I will become more confident after doing this challenge.

I joined the student blogging challenge because my teacher made us.
I hope some of the activities include book reviews because I love to hear about new good books.
I hope to get a great experience out of this activity

I joined blogging challenge, because i wanted to add more things to my blog, and let more people come visit my blog. Make it more interesting! I don’t care about which activities we do, at least we have more things do add to our blog! About 500 visitor’s!!! I really just want to have lots of people visit!

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
Well, only my teachers have visited my blog and left comments I hope at the end of this I will have approved 10 comments.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope we get a new friend through blogging.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I hope I will be a better blogger and have more people visit my blog.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
My teacher thought it was a great activity to be included in.

What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope to create awesome blogs. And be able to go on peoples pages and comment.

Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I hope i get to learn how to create cool blogs, improve my commenting skills, and learn some cool things about different subjects.

ACTIVITY 4-
Samantha…we both love cheerleading.
Katrina…she talked about Math.
Abbey…posted a fashion show picture.
Vatrina…love the grafiti picture!
Amber…we both like to read and swim.
Teegan…uses same avatar site.
Jarrod…both love walking on the beach.
Lauren…love the song on her blog
Isaih…loved the poem
Riley…love the keyboard on her blog.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
Well,it was the homework for the night but it’s pretty fun!+_+
What did you hope some of the activities include?
I really want to comment on peoples pages.
What do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
Just have some fun talking and getting to know everyone

Hi
why did you join the challenge.
ijoined the challenge because i thought it would be fun.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope the activities involve lots of fun but educational stuff.
what do you hope to get out of this challenge .
I hope i learn lots of new stuff about blogging.

I ultimately decided to join because I get extra credit for it. But now that I’m here, It looks like fun!
I wanna start writing this blog to be able to talk about what I want to talk about and see others opinions on things.
I hope to become a better blogger and make a habit of it!

Why did you join the student blogging challenge?
Mrs. Wilson made me.
What do hope some of the activites include?
I hope the challenges include lots of fun with real work in them.
What do you hope to get out of the challenge?
I hope that people will learn more about me and I can learn more about other people.

This is my first doing the student blogging challenge so I dont know what to expec. I am doing the student blogging challenge because my teacher is making me. I am looking foward to having a good time with the student blogging challenge.

1. Why did you join the blogging challenge? – I joined the blogging challenge because it was a non compulsury school activity and my days are a lot less busy than they used to be now that netball is over.
2. What do you hope some of the activities include? -I hope they include making avatars, writing posts and writing comments.
3. Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks? – I hope to be a better blogger at the ene of these 10 weeks and I would also like to learn some new skills to interest me and my viewers.

1.I joined the Student Blogging Challenge so i can learn about other things ( like music and sports).
2. I hope we learn about music and sports and other things AROUND the world.
3.I hope we get the word out and that we have the latest things

We joined as a class, I hope we learn about art, fashion, and music. I want to learn how to make music, and i want to learn how to do animation. Also i want to learn more about fashion and learn how to make my own design.

I joined the blogging challenge because i have heard a lot of cool things about it from last year. I hope one of the activities will include us posting one of our family vacations we have been on. I hope to learn all of the features and to be a pro blogger.

I joined the blogging challenge because i herd great things about it and wanted to try it myself.
I hope some of the challenges incloude sports activites.
I hope to become a better writer when i finish the challenge

I joined the blogging challenge so I could become a better blogger and people to notify my passion for writing- also to maybe be short listed for a blogger award at the end of the challenge.
I hope some activities include writing about different countries and cultures.
Like I said I hope I become a better blogger and of had fun doing it.

Hi Mrs. W
~Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I wanted to do the blogging challenge because I enjoyed it last year.
~What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope some of the activities include getting to know other people through blogging.
~Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I hope to improve my writing skills.
Thank you
CHELSEA~

I joined the blogging challenge because i have heard lots of awesome comments from people who did it last year. i hope some of the activities will include spoorting challanges. i hope to be a more experinced blogger and learn all the features.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
to have a blog-of-fun!!
What do you hope some of the activities include?
updating games to the blogs
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
being a popular blogger!!!

Why did you join the blogging challenge? To learn new things for my blog because I just created one this year and I wanted to know how to put fun things on my blog like widgets and plugins.

What do you hope some of the activities include? I hope some of the activities include things like putting a video on a post (from youtube), creating a prezi/slide/photopeach on a post on my blog, writing a post about an interesting topic that you tell us to write about.

Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks? I hope to have learnt to create new widgets and posts to put on my blog and I hope to have more people visit and comment on my blog.

I’m really excited to be involved in my first blogging challenge with my class.

Here are the answers to your questions
Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I joined the challenge for a few reasons. Firstly, to learn more about blogging so that our class blog can be as exciting and interesting as possible. Also, to increase mine and my class’ ICT skills and to make connections with classes around the world.

What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope some of the activities include collaborative projects with other schools and classes. Also, activities which teach me how to add slideshows, videos, new widgets etc to the class blog. Perhaps also how to involve parents for a sustained period of time (and not just when we have our blog challenge month)

Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I would like to have made new connections with classes and to have new features on the class blog (new skills).

On a completely different note, I have started the challenge with my class and we all made avatars in buildyourwildself. We’ve cropped them but I can’t work out how to load student ones to the blog. Mine is fine but I can’t add users to my global2 blog as any email address I use is not accepted. Doe I need to upgrade my global2 membership? Hoping you can help solve this problem as my class is very keen to get their avatars to appear next to their comments.

I am answering you questions for the student blogging challenge!!
Why did you join the student blogging challenge? I joined the student blogging challenge because my teachers said it was a great oppourtunity and it helps you with your blogging skills.
What do you hope some activites include? Well I hope some activites include Writing posts, visiting other peoples blogs and getting taught how to get some awesome things on your blog.
What do you hope to get out of the challenge? I hope to be a more confident blogger and know how to make friends from different countries by blogging and commenting.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
What do you hope some of the activities include?
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I joined the blogging challenge for a good grade in school. i hope some of the actives include getting on other peoples pages and commenting. i hope to get a few new friends and some knowlage.

Hi, I enjoyed the blog challenger because our class has started to make our own blogs. it has be fun. I also liked the challengers because i could see what other people think and like about it and i can not wait to have some more fun. i would love to keep seeing new peoples things cant wait to come back.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I joined to help improve my skills for blogging.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
Activities to do with commenting.
What do you hope to get out of the blogging challenge over the next ten weeks?
To become a better blogger and writer.

I hope this will be a awesome journey in this Kids Blogging Compitition! I hope through this journey my blog will be famous and people will have the urge to read it! I would like to see photography activities!

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
It looked like a new experience for me and I wanted to try it out.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I would like to gain expertise in blogging and the internet, (blogger)
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I would enjoy some Photography activities.

Hey,
I joined because my teacher made us for class this year. I hope to see some really cool things like posting on other blogs and stuff like that. Lastly I hope to learn new and exciting things about science or really any subject!

I joined the blogging challenge because I wanted to improve my typing, my grammar and my writing. I also wanted to tell everybody what I have been up to. I hope some of the activities will include scavenger hunts around the internet.

I joined the student blogging challenge to not only get comments from people in my country but from other to see what they think about my writing, getting more criticism i don’t mind, I’m looking forward to it. I hope there are picture challenges. And I hope that I am a much better writer by the end of the 10 weeks.

Why did I join the blogging challenge?
I joined the blogging challenge because my teacher said we had to.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I have never done the blogging challenge so I don’t know.
What do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten nine weeks?
I hope to have fun and want to do it again.

Hi Miss W!
Today the first day my class got online! After setting up accounts and gaining access, we have started to fill-in our About page. Feel free to drop by and welcome the students to challenge. Only one of my students are returning from last year, so there is much enthusiasm for the adventure of blogging.

While I’m here, I’ll answer the questions as well: I joined the challenge because it offers structure and support to the experience of blogging. I hope that activities this year include the incorporation of images and perhaps videos into the blog. I hope to get a better understanding of how to interact with others, such as using trackbacks/pingbacks.

I joined the Student Blogging Challenge as an assignment in Science class. I hope to see activities where we get to interact with people from everywhere. I love meeting new people! I hope to just get some more technical knowledge from this challenge.
-Minsong

Grace,
Spam is often a comment left on a post that has nothing to do with the post. The person who sends the spam often doesn’t use your name or their name in the comment. They also often have at least one link that will take you to a site where they are selling something like shoes or handbags.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
My teacher said that we were doing the blogging challenge as a class.

What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope that one of these challenges will include writing a short-story.Because i like to write short stories.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I want to learn how i can continue to post interesting items on my blog.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I joined the blogging challenge mostly because it is a project in my class, but i also joined because I think it will teach me important things about blogging. Plus, it will be really fun!
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope the activities include making your blog interesting and fun to read.
What do you hope to get out of the blogging challenge over the next ten weeks?
I hope I learn how to properly make an awesome blog!

I joined this website because my awesome science teacher said we have to for our class. But I think it is a pretty cool site and that we are going to have a lot of fun this year. So far this website has been fun having an account and all I think that we will all have a fun expierience and I hope to learn more about blogging and talking to people over the enternet.

I am doing this blog because my teacher made me and it seems kind of fun. ;]
I hope that all of the challenges include a lot of technology.
I hope to learn (by the end of the blogging challenge) more ways to work with technology.

I joined the blog because Mrs. Wilson made the whole class join as a class project.
I hope some of these activities include writing stories or saying hello to people.
I hope to gain knowledge about blogging for when I am older.

We joined the blogging challenge to learn more about what makes a quality blog. We especially want to learn how to insert pictures and videos in our posts. By the end of the ten weeks, we hope to have learned enough about blogging that we can each set up our own personal blog!

I joined student blogging challenge because we all joined as a class.I hope many students will read our blogs,and I also hope we get to talk to different people and students all over the world.I hope we don’t have any problems with our information.Also that people won’t hate our blogs and posts.

We are all in this blog because we all joined as a classroom as a class period.I hope some of the activites we do in this class is talk about our hobbies and what we like I also want to find out and get more expirienced blogger.

I joined the student blogging challenge because i’m in a class that requires it.I hope to make a lot of videos do a lot of art projects and just mainly do stuff i like.I hope to get a better understanding on blogging and the internet.

Lucy,
You have two avatars on a blog. The first one is a blog avatar which you find in your dashboard under settings. The other avatar is a user or comment avatar and you find this under users on your dashboard. You will need to load both of them.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I have only just started blogging a few months ago, and I absolutely love it! My teachers said that if we have a blog, we should enter the blogging challenge so I did! I am trying to do all this in my spare time, and fortunately I have enough spare time to do these tasks!
What do you hope some of the activities include?
DEFINITELY widjets. I have about 50 widjets on my blog, but I really want to let kids of younger ages to visit my blog so I’m hoping to not delete any!
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
Hopefully, I have gained some more knowledge of blogging and I am determied to do it more often!

I joined the blogging challenge to have more experiences with blogging and I thought it would be really fun taking part in all the challenges! Also, as Sarah has mentioned above, my teacher said that alot of her students last year learnt alot about blogging. I also wanted to visit and read alot of other students blogs and see what they have been up to! I think the student blogging challenge will open me up even more to the world of blogging.

What do you hope some of the activities include?

I hope some of the activities include writing posts, maybe creating new widgets and I hope that I have a better understanding of the world of blogging.

Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?

I hope that I learn alot after the 10 weeks of blogging and I also hope I meet some other student or even teacher bloggers like yourself. I also hope that I improve my blog and learn how to use it better and write quality posts.

Dawso,
Great user avatar, by the way. To find the other students, look in the header of the student blogging challenge blog. There is a title – Participants September 2011 – hover over that and you will find a link for students. Click on this and it should open up to a Google document with all 700+ students who have registered so far.

Hi Miss W,
Why did you join the blogging challenge?
I joined the Sudent Blogging Challenge so that I could learn how to make my blog more interesting and new tips and tricks. I also wanted to gain visitors and skills in the blogging world! Also, my teacher said that the people last year learnt heaps about blogging!

What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope that they include other people visiting our blogs and also that we can visit other blogs. I also hope that we get subjects that we can write about. I hope that we can do things that make our blogs look awesome but we get to learn along the way.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I pretty much hope that I have learnt how to do better posts and how to make my blog a better website. I also hope that I lean cool tips that I can teach to other people!
Thanks Miss W, you have put lots of time and effort into this and thanks so much for creating it!
Dawso

The reason why i joined the student blogging challenge is because my teach said that the people in her class last year learnt alot about blogging. I thought that it would be interestin to try something new and lear about blogging. I saw how many people had signed up for it so I thought that whay should I miss out on all the fun so i signed up. I also needed to know alot about blogging to be a great blogger and not have borring post but people will want to leave comments and will come and visit my blog. I also want to know how i can get more people and comments on my blog. I also joined becauseThat is why I know that I joined.

What do you hope some of the activities include?

I hope they are challenging an I learn alot about them. I also hope that they are fun and interesting. And that I do not know how to do them well it is the student blogging challenge. I also hope that it includes writing.

Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I hope I know how to improve my blog and how to write interesting posts and comments. I hope I have fun and have more knowledge on how to blog.
Thankyou Miss W for the challenge
Smiling sarahhttp://smilingsarah.edublogs.org

I joined the student blogging challenge because I wanted to improve my blogging.
I hope that one of the activities is how to make a animoto.
At the end of the student blogging challenge I hope to have 150 comments,19 more posts and an animoto.

I joined the challenge because it seemed like it would be fun and interesting. I also thought that might students would enjoy it. I really don’t have any ideas for activities that I would like to see at the moment, but I will keep you posted if I do. I hope to learn more about blogging, and build my communication skills. I would like to see the same for my students.

Q.why di you jion the blogging challenge?
A. I joined the bloggingchallenge b/cmy teacher asked us to b/c we will be usingthis sitea lot for school
Q.What do you hope some of the activities include?
A.I hope to do fun projects and fun things like that.
Q.What do you hope to get out of the challenge during the end of the first ten weeks?
A.I hope to get more skills and learn more about blogging

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
For one my teacher told our class to, but I think it will be really fun.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I’m not really sure what to expect, because this is my first time doing blogging challenges.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
Just to have had fun and maybe learn some things about blogging.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
To keep track of my blog
What do you hope some of the activities include?
Fun,interesting,and new things
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
Alot of viewers and good blogging skills

Hi Sue
Thanks for mentoring so many of us through this process. Your expertise, advice and support is very appreciated. To complete Activity 2 answers to your questions follow…

Why did you join the blogging challenge?

I’m a new blogger with a class of Year 1’s. I thought it would be a good way to expand my knowledge and increase my class’s expertise. I am also looking to connect with other blogging classes and student bloggers.

What do you hope some of the activities include?

Making avatars and embedding them into the blog has already been a highlight. It has been good to have links to blogs to be able to see what other student bloggers are doing (and to give us the opportunity to comment) Teegan did a magnificent post about avatars (Thanks Twitter for telling me about her post) and Max and Jack had such cool examples on their blogs to get us started.
I’m keen to explore web 2.0 tools that I might not yet be aware of. I want to understand about the use of Creative Commons.

Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?

I hope to have learnt new techniques, about web 2.0 tools and discover new things that will help me be a better blogger and help me to improve the skills my Year 1 children are building as novice posters and commenters. I know I’ll look back and think – WOW – I’ve learnt so much.

Why did you join the Blogging Challenge?
I joined the Blogging Challenge because I wanted to challenge myself and I also wanted to learn new things.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope some of the activities include making things on the internet because I find it really fun.
What to you hope to get out of the challenge?
I hope to get new skills out of this challenge and knowing how to use more things on the internet.
Georgia

I joined the blogging challenge to get more visitors to my blog from all over the world. I hope to learn more about widgets that I can use for my blog. I look forward to seeing what the next activity will be.

HI Miss W,
This is my answers to the questions!
I joined the blogging challenge because I have done it wice before and enjoyed. The reason I signed up the first time was because my teacher said it would fun to do and she was correct. Why did you start up the challenge?
I want to get more visitors to my blog, learn more about commenting html codes to create symbols and smileys. I also want to get ideas for posts.
A challenge that I would hope to see is a story with no words challenge ( that one was fun) and maybe we could make one where one person writes as a comment their favourite website that has things to embed onto your blog and after you could try some of the ones you have never used before!
Keep blogging
Teegan 8)http://teganrm4.edublogs.org/

Teegan,
Thanks for your reply and I started the challenge so my students could get out into the big, wide world through their blogs. In that first challenge we had students fromPortugal, Canada and USA. They had to learn how to translate the Portuguese which was interesting.

Thanks for your idea of a comment about your favourite website that allows embedding. That would be good to put in the Digital Footprint activities.

Hey Dawso,
My name is Dawson and I find it very funny that we almost have the same name! I am definitly going to visit your blog, and if you want to visit mine, the blog address is http://dawson110gs.edublogs.org/

Activity 4
My Avatar looks nothing like me it is cool but I think that a avatar should look cool not like me or other people that are making avatars. So in addition to the question my avatar is nothing like me.
Thanks Amber

WHY DID I JOIN THE BLOGGING CHALLENGE?
I joined the blogging challenge because my whole class have blogs so my teacher made it an activity in ‘Reading Groups’ (Other Words We Had To).

WHAT DO I HOPE SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES INCLUDE?
I only got my blog a couple of months ago and I have never done a challenge but I hope it includes things I haven’t done to my blog, inserting things from the internet like Page Plugins and Physics Games.

WHAT DO I HOPE TO GET OUT OF DOING THE CHALLENGE?
I hope that I will get more comments and regular visitors. I will be able to look at other peoples’ blogs around the world and A better blog!

Why did I join up for the student blogging challenge?
Well my teacher told me about it and said that I might be good at it and also enjoy it and i thought it would be fun.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
Web 2.0 tools, because I like to make things on the internet and I find them fun to use.

What do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I hope to make my blog more popular,and to also improve my blogging skills
Jenna

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
Becouse my dad told me about and it sounded fun.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
I hope some of them include sports.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
I want to meet new people and learn new stuff.

Why did you join the blogging challenge?
becuse my dad told me he thought I would like it and I did.
What do you hope some of the activities include?
geting to add videos to our blog.
Finally, what do you hope to get out of the challenge by the end of the ten weeks?
Get to make new friends.

I joined this challenge because it is an excellent way to find new, interesting blogs from people all over the world; and for other people to find my blog.
I hope that this challenge will include activities related to design and usability. I am extremely interested in user-interfacing.
Through this challenge, I hope to improve my blog formatting, the presentation of my posts, increase the number of viewers of my blog, and of course to improve my blogging skills in general.